Re: Build emacs on debian

[hubert]

On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:49:51 -0400, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> said:

> Oddly that ended poorly.... not sure why: sudo apt-get build-dep
> emacs24

>   Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state
> information... Done E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your
> sources.list

> I'm pretty sure I don't need source pkgs to build emacs so must be
> something else going on.

It needs the deb-src urls so that it can fetch the source package
description to install the build dependencies.  If you don't want to add
the deb-src urls, then you can download the dsc file manually.  Just go
to https://packages.debian.org/sid/emacs24, and click on the .dsc file
listed on the right-hand side.  Then look at the Build-Depends line.
That's a list of all the packages that are needed to build.

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